ESH: Mari G from Tronto

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mari G sober in 1984 and from Toronto Canada tells her story at the 2011 Woodstock of the South AA Conference. Her share is her story but with much of it from the perspective of the steps, not to mention she is pretty funny at the same time. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.2	You just told me you were tired of me, you're so fickle, Clancy.
0:34.8	My name is Mary and I am an alcoholic and I'm absolutely delighted to be here.
0:43.3	It would stock of the south in Georgia and I was in Georgia a few weeks ago as you heard
0:50.0	and I just love Georgia and someone told me I'm wearing the bulldog colors today.
0:59.2	Thank you Rebecca, you've been absolutely wonderful, you've really been a joy of spending
1:08.4	time with you and I'd like to thank our Dick and Barbara for inviting me here to participate
1:15.6	in this and all of my teachers are here and I have learned so much today as I continually
1:22.4	learn from them because I know the people here and I know that they truly live this
1:28.4	program and it's wonderful for me.
1:35.2	I sit, I listen, I absorb like a sponge and I hope to carry back and pass on to my
1:41.0	sponsors what I have learned here and I'm doing steps eight and nine.
1:46.5	Our concern primarily with relationships and relationships have always been a great
1:53.0	problem for me.
1:56.6	In the seventh step it says this is where we make the change in our attitude which permits
2:01.8	us with humility to move out from ourselves towards others.
2:09.0	My problem was that I was always encased in self.
2:14.0	My problem was that I was self-obsessed.
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